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mk  ·  4462 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Radicalness Of 3D Printing

    If I have faith in anything, it’s in corporate greed. Once it’s cheap and easy to put a 3D printer in every home, and eliminate every cost of manufacturing to the “manufacturer” by passing it on to the customer, major corporations will get it done in a heartbeat. And they won’t give a damn about the consequences, because the only concern will be the profit of the moment. CEOs will be all too happy about the billions they will save by making their companies cost nearly nothing to run, while still selling the same number of products at the same price they used too. It’s all too predictable.

It's funny to think that corporations will 'outsource' manufacturing to their customers. There are going to be some absurd DRM wars when this occurs.

It's possible that the next economic giant might be the one that frees up its populace to produce.





thundara  ·  4462 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Plastic polymers used in printing may become the new oil, as an essential raw good in producing all other products.